MUS 3.02 American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing

Nearly every genre of American music is marked by its re-invention, adaptation, or outright theft of music from other cultures. We will study a wide cross-section of American music from 1890–2018 through the prism of musical borrowing. Our perspective includes songwriters, composers, and sound artists in rap, pop, rock, jazz, film, and art music. Readings on the aesthetics of cover songs, quotations, and plunderphonics will inform our engagement with American music and its sources.

Distributive and/or World Culture

Dist:ART; WCult:W

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